Saw an interesting SS rotting away today...

Does anyone know this car? Before anyone asks, I didn't get to take any pictures yet, but I'll try to get them when we go back to the house..

I was in Swampscott and in the driveway of the house next door, down the back there was a '65 Impala droptop, and a '94 SS parked closer to the end of the driveway in front of that. Through the window I could see it had some sort of a floor shifter installed (B&M?, maybe T-56?), there were extra gauges neatly installed in the dash to the left of the steering wheel, it had extra toggle switches of some kind in the console aft of the shifter boot (maybe a Blazer console or something), aftermarket brakes like Wilwoods possibly with red calipers and some other add ons, polished 18 or 19" aluminum 5 spoke wheels (Boyd?), and some other goodies that I am probably forgetting. The car had a Earnhardt "3" on the trunk, and an old green and white Mass. plate.

This is what sucks, the car was deteriorating badly. It definitely hadn't moved from it's spot in ages, tires looked flat spotted, the clear was all peeled off the spoiler and the back bumper, the car had about a foot of pine needles all in the cowl vent coming up the windshield, and sap all over it from front to back. The sun wasn't being kind to it either. It's too bad because it looked like a nice car, it still is, and could probably be saved, but too much longer and it's going to have major issues if it sits like that. The '65 in front of it was all the way under the pine tree (hence the pine needles) and was in way worse condition as a result, a harbinger of what's going to happen to the SS. Behind the 65 Impala was a big pile of cut off custom exhaust system components.

Anyway, figured I'd share while my Internet is actually working...lol. It definitely looked like one of those cars where someone would recognize it. If someone does know who it is, I'm not trying to poke fun at the situation, my house is a lot worse and has more cars laying around, so I know it happens.

knock on the door and see how much it would take to save it!

Doug

Latelly around here that's a common site. Mostly it's people in the military getting sent overseas and the car is parked at a parents house and isn't touched until they return. Sometimes the cars are never touched again.

Pooge wrote:

knock on the door and see how much it would take to save it!

Doug

I was gonna say the same thing! The only thing I will add is "TELL ME FIRST!"

there is a 96 ss in my town just like that. a kid i went 2 high school with got a big check and bought a 96 ss back in 2003-2004?. beat on it for alittle while drove it 2 north carolina shortly after gettin it the tranny blew up down there got towed back 2 his house and has sat in the dirt since... all 4 tires are flat grills now missing whole body is covered with green polin and sap. several people have knocked on his door and he just says "no iam keepin it, id have to get 7 grand for it to sell it" hes a retard...

toomanytoyz wrote:

Pooge wrote:

knock on the door and see how much it would take to save it!

Doug

I was gonna say the same thing! The only thing I will add is "TELL ME FIRST!"

So there's gonna be a 4-SALE sign in the Caddy window......

There's a mint dcm Imp for sale down the street from me. It spent about 3 days rotting away at a car wash/detailers before being parked in a driveway where the sunlight bounces nicely on the freshly waxed body. I'm guessing they want tons of money and it'll sit for a week or 2

I'm obviously going to try and contact the owner of this one and see what the deal is if they don't seem crazy or anything like that...who knows, maybe they'll sell it (to me) cheap.

Something's gotta be wrong with it.

sdstick wrote:

toomanytoyz wrote:

Pooge wrote:

knock on the door and see how much it would take to save it!

Doug

I was gonna say the same thing! The only thing I will add is "TELL ME FIRST!"

So there's gonna be a 4-SALE sign in the Caddy window......

Nope.

I left a nice note asking if the car(s) were for sale on the door there the other day (no one home), but never heard anything back. After a closer look at the car, I can see why it might be one of those "I'll never sell it" situations you see on the Cars in Barns website.

According the Europeanish guy next door, through his accent I could figure out he was saying something like the car had "zee 800 horsepower" and "nitrogen system yah"...













So strange! Note the odd mufflers, numerous toggle switches, AC vents blocked off with carbon fiber panels and switches mounted there, analog gauges, etc...

note the in dash monitor...... possible system in trunk.....somebody loved/loves that car......

are those tail pipes running under the gas tank

mean ss wrote:

are those tail pipes running under the gas tank

Yes they are...unless it has a fuel cell or something mounted differently...

That's too bad, someone obviously put some serious time into the car. It has it's rough points, but looks very savable..

And a 94 too...I have such a soft spot for them...esp. when you consider I have technically owned one one-thousanth of all that were produced

Doug

SOMEONE NEEDS TO SAVE IT FAST!!!!!

damn iam goin 2 have 2 take pics of the one sittin in my town.. its a 96

I might actually know that car. If it's the one I'm thinking it is, I used to work with the guy who'd building it. And if it IS that one, it's a B-E-A-S-T!!!!! Supercharged, injected 502 with a 4L80E. All custom everything. The guy was pretty amazing. My aluminum driveshaft and a few other things came off that car...

toomanytoyz wrote:

I might actually know that car. If it's the one I'm thinking it is, I used to work with the guy who'd building it. And if it IS that one, it's a B-E-A-S-T!!!!! Supercharged, injected 502 with a 4L80E. All custom everything. The guy was pretty amazing. My aluminum driveshaft and a few other things came off that car...

I want to say the owner's name is Dave, but I'm not 100% sure. That'd be pretty funny if it were the same car! Since it had the old green and white MA plate, I doubt someone under the age of 40 owns the car, so that would be a clue...

This just reminded me of another SS I saw sitting for years in N. Reading, it was on Haverhill St right by the side of the road in a driveway. The car looked like it may have been in an accident as it was sitting in an odd position, I believe it was on jackstands, and it was under a car cover. The thing must have been there for about 6 years then about a year or so ago it just disappeared, I think the house was sold.

bammax wrote:

There's a mint dcm Imp for sale down the street from me. It spent about 3 days rotting away at a car wash/detailers before being parked in a driveway where the sunlight bounces nicely on the freshly waxed body. I'm guessing they want tons of money and it'll sit for a week or 2

Yeah, car pro's want $11k. It has 40k on the clock too!!! I washed my 9C1 the other day and drooled. Had to check it out.

Pretty sure that's it, then. His name was Dave.

I wonder what happened!

He works slowly and methodically.

Update, that I forgot to post.

About a week ago I got a random voicemail from a woman (prob. the guy's wife?) who'd received my note I left on the door back in July, asking if I were interested in the old Impala convertible. Didn't mention the '94 SS.
It looks like a cool car and seemed complete, but looked like it was beyond my means by a few football fields. lol

If anyone is interested in it, feel free to PM me and I'll send you their phone #.

http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/cto/2330088154.html

Just noticed that on CL...looks familiar.

Matt Trakker wrote:

http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/cto/2330088154.html

Just noticed that on CL...looks familiar.

Looks like the hood on the SS was up.

1984twodoor wrote:

Matt Trakker wrote:

http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/cto/2330088154.html

Just noticed that on CL...looks familiar.

Looks like the hood on the SS was up.

Yes, & the battery charger was in the foreground.
If they want $2K for the convertible, forget THAT seller, it'll be next year before they get real.

FYI , the pro's sold that impala. Not sure who bought it, but I'm sure they paid too much for it. I work across the street.

mikiehews wrote:

FYI , the pro's sold that impala. Not sure who bought it, but I'm sure they paid too much for it. I work across the street.

pro's ?

Race car builders or something?

Auto repair pro's inc.

http://boston.craigslist.org/nos/cto/3385170325.html

Quote :

1994 impala ss with an aluminum 502 big block gold crane rocker arms (less than 1000 miles on engine) edelbrock pro flo injection putting out around 570HP approx 620ft lbs of torqueMSD digital ignitoin custom pullys 3" stainless exhaust all the way back stainless slotted brakes currie 9" rear end rebuilt and reinforced 4l80e tranny to hold over 1200HP for nitrous, electronic over drive vendor gear, 2 fuel cells in the trunk one for pump gas other for nitrous (110) octane, has stainless brake lines and braided cooling lines stage 4 nitrous kit that has lines run to trunk and ports on the intake just need the rail for the solenoids, has custom cobalt carbon fiber dash w/guages. Lidar jammer/detector and Pioneer stereo with nav etc. crager ss wheels edelbrock springs and shocks all around. electric water pump stainless radiator, rack and pinion steering (nitrous is wired up with the 4 stage kit) 50-250hp only has 1000 miles on the 502, 40,000 on the car 1994 has the least production!! Build has receipts for over 60000$! looking to move onto next project.
can get more pictures upon request.....
total sleeper and mustang killer can throw in 2 racing seats and simpson 6 point harnesses and another set of tires and wheels
781 640 6256

Well that looks familiar...lol. I saw this car sitting in a driveway in Saugus a few days ago too. Knew it had to be the same car.

Here are the pics I took a back when I first posted this thread. I guess the URLs for them have since changed.

Holy shit that's a serious car.. Cleaned up nice too!

I used to work with the guy who was building that car. Although, at the time it had a TH400 in it. He was talking about the gear vendors overdrive for it the last I talked to him. It doesn't sound like he kept it if you guys have seen it at those other places, but this is definitely the car. I remember him making the gauge cluster and those brakes and interior stick in my brain...

The aluminum driveshaft that I had in the Impala came out of this car when he started this build. :-)

Cleaned up well...

I love that it looks stock from the outside minus a set of wheels/tires...daddy likes!

It looks like it had a DE Chevrolet badge on the back, and someone ripped it off in the old pictures.
I think I may have owned that car when it was new. I had the same badge and number three on mine. I wounder if that was my first impala.

Edit: On second glance, I removed the door moldings a week after buying the car, and eventually removed the Impala SS script, and both the DEC badge and #3 flanked the license plate, and were centered.

Seein those pics of before, and it sitting like that, i don't care how clean it is, i dont think it will bring $22,000 bucks.

No Moa wrote:

Seein those pics of before, and it sitting like that, i don't care how clean it is, i dont think it will bring $22,000 bucks.

So right. Lucky to hit 10k.

Me three. In addition to the pictures that you guys can see here, I personally looked into the windows of this car and walked all around it, it was a total disaster. The driver's seat was ripped and the whole thing was generally dirty and full of pine needles inside and out, and the bright sun was cooking it every day. It had been sitting for a while too. It's a cool car nevertheless but that is wishful thinking. It looks like someone flipped the SS convertible on CL a while ago, so I'm curious as to whether the builder of this vehicle that Bill C. knew is the one selling it now and just moved to Saugus from Swampscott where I'd seen it originally, or if they wound up selling it cheap to a third party, and that person is trying to sell it for that high dollar amount now?

That car looks like you brought a razor blade to a knife fight but in reality it's more like a 50 cal!

I like it, but there is no way in hell that I like it for that much. Sorry lol!

Remember seeing that car about 2 weeks ago up by my work in Quincy. It was at a brand new Meinike Muffler shop that just opened up next to the CVS behind it on Rt 3a.
If I see it again, have to stop and shoot the breeze and see it. Looks like a hell of a runner. But the money the owner wants will hold back most people for sure .